Thousands of Americans could soon join the ranks of disease detectives in one of the most important battles against coronavirus. Contact tracing has helped slow or stop previous epidemics, such as the ...

Electron microscope image of the virus that causes COVID-19. Photo: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Apple and Google revealed Friday that they’re teaming up to take on one of the ...

The world is in quarantine. And public health experts say ending that quarantine safely might rely on something called "contact tracing." This approach would use a fairly new technology that relies on ...

Remember the contact tracing efforts at the start of the pandemic? States hired thousands of public health workers, so whenever a positive test came in, they could retrace that person's steps and call ...

Alejandra Perez-Handler had a 2-month-old baby and desperately needed at-home work, so she took a job as a contact tracer in Connecticut. From October through November, she made about 20 calls a day ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alejandra Perez-Handler had a 2-month-old baby and desperately needed at-home work, so she took a job as a contact tracer in ...

On Tuesday, Oregon's health and education officials urged schools to continue steps to prevent the spread of COVID-19 including masking indoors, acknowledging the rapid surge of omicron and the threat ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lorna Thorpe, director of epidemiology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, on the benefits and disadvantages of contact tracing at this pandemic phase.